UH Law Center to Launch Course on the Transformation of the Legal Profession
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HOUSTON, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ In spring 2021, the University of Houston Law Center will offer its first-ever course on legal innovation, currently a hot topic in legal education. Designed to prepare students for the rapidly evolving legal industry, the course will survey and explore emerging legal business models, the rise of alternative legal service providers, increasing emphasis on legal entrepreneurship, ongoing regulatory reform initiatives, career path alternatives and the role and adoption of new technologies.
The course will be coordinated and taught by Rafael D.B. Figueiredo, general counsel for Santa Fe Gas, a multinational natural gas trading and services company based in Houston. Prior to his current role, Figueiredo worked for over a decade at large law firms in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, giving him a broad set of e
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Gerard BRADLEY is professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches Legal Ethics and Constitutional Law. At Notre Dame he directs (with John Finnis) the Natural Law Institute and co-edits The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy. Bradley has been a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, in Princeton, N.J.
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It took one sentence for the United States Supreme Court this week to decline to overturn certified election results in Pennsylvania. It was the latest failed attempt by Donald Trump s lawyers to challenge the November election, which he lost.
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